The revised package now heads back to the House, where Republican leaders are hoping to approve it and send it to Trump before a self-imposed July 4 deadline. But it faces hurdles.
Senate Republicans have betrayed the American people.
When people start losing their Medicaid When people start losing their jobs When electric bills go up When health care premiums go up When kids and parents lose SNAP funding
The American people will remember this vote.[image or embed]
-- Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov) Jul 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is one to talk. He capitulated on the GOP bill in March to ensure US military aid continued uninterrupted to Israel. Voila! The GOP bill passed and the so-called "ceasefire" ended, letting the IDF resume its ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip. Who do the heck does AIPAC-mired Chuck Schumer think he is fooling pretending to be on the side of hardworking, peace-loving Americans?
Link: thehill.com
Morning Consult (February 2025)
x.com
... Trump won Medicaid recipients in 2024. 49% of beneficiaries voted for him over 47% who voted for Kamala Harris.
By comparison, our data from 2021 shows Biden won the group by 19 percentage points in 2020. ...
Vance Says It Doesn't Matter How Many People Lose Medicaid in Budget
newrepublic.com
... JD Vance is being slammed after a twisted post on the costs of Republicans' budget bill.
Vice President JD Vance is being lambasted for dismissing social safety net rollbacks under the Trump tax bill currently making its way through Congress.
On Monday night, Vance attempted to rally support for the bill in a post on X, writing, "Everything else"the CBO score [the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate], the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy"is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions."
Many were rubbed the wrong way by Vance's claim that the bill's worrisome qualities are of little consequence compared to its staggering expansion of federal immigration enforcement (which a majority of Americans already believe has "gone too far" in carrying out Trump's deportation agenda).
Particularly odious was the suggestion that "the minutiae of the Medicaid policy," among other all-but-trivial concerns, is "immaterial." After all, in delivering "the most dramatic reductions in safety net spending in modern U.S. history," per The Washington Post, the bill could cause 17 million people to lose their health insurance and, according to some estimates, lead to tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year. It is also projected to add trillions to the deficit.
"If Republicans wanted to pass a big ICE funding bill they could," posted journalist Matthew Yglesias on X. "What they wrote is a bill that has trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of regressive tax cuts partially offset by cuts in programs for poor Americans but that also massively increases debt." ...
From another thread ( drudge.com )...
Johnson faces new GOP revolt on Trump's "big, beautiful bill"
www.axios.com
... House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is facing an explosion of internal anger among his members over the Senate's changes to President Trump's "big, beautiful bill."
Why it matters: The speaker has just days to pass the bill before Republicans' self-imposed July 4 deadline -- which will require flipping dozens of "no" votes and overcoming numerous procedural hurdles.
- - - "We knew the Senate would amend the House product. I encouraged them to amend it as lightly as possible. They went a little further than than many of us would have preferred," Johnson told reporters on Tuesday.
What they're saying: "Our bill has been completely changed ... It's a non-starter," Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) bemoaned to reporters on Tuesday,
- - - Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said in a post on social media that he will introduce an amendment to the Senate bill that would delete all its text and replace it with the version passed by the House in May.
- - - One House Republican, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Axios there are "well over 20" GOP lawmakers threatening to vote against the bill.
State of play: The Senate voted 51-50 to pass their own version of the bill on Tuesday, with Vice President Vance serving as the tiebreaker. ...
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